Rob Bell Quotes
Fifteen Quotes by: Rob Bell of Mars Hill Bible Church Founder and pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church. Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other . . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars ... We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet ... We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality
Everything is Spiritual Tour, at San Francisco 10/08/15. Dated: 10th August 2015
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Created in honor of Mother’s Day, God our Mother is a liturgy that explores both the scriptures that speak of God in a maternal context and the limits of human language in describing an infinite God. God Our Mother includes an apophatic contemplative meditation. Apophatic disciplines seek to push beyond language and rational thinking in the context of God’s Holiness, and can be very powerful. For this reason, we recommend that spiritual practices like apophaticism are best moderated through scripture, tradition, and some form of spiritual community.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 20th July 2015.
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What we are seeing right now in this day, I believe God is pulling us ahead into greater and greater affirmation and acceptance of our gay brothers and sisters and pastors and friends and neighbours and co-workers. And we are realising that God made some of us one way and some another and it can be a beautiful thing. And so instead of throwing stones and causing more pain and suffering in the world by excluding some and writing off others and speaking incredibly unkindly about some, we embrace that we are all on a journey and all of us together whatever our particular perspective is let's work together to face the real problems we have ahead of us. ...
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 20th March 2013.
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I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it’s a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man, ... I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs — I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 18th March 2013.
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But they don’t make Oldsmobiles anymore. They used to be popular, but the factories have shut down, and eventually the only ones left will be collector’s items, relics of an era that has passed. Oldsmobile couldn’t keep up with the times and has become more and more something of the past, not the future. For them, not us. For then, not now. ... For a growing number of people in our modern world, God is a bit like Oldsmobiles. ... Things have changed; we have more information and technology than ever. We’re interacting with a broader, more diverse range of people than ever, and the tribal God, the only one many people have ever heard of, appears more and more small, and narrow, and irrelevant, and in some cases just plain mean, and other times not that intelligent.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 5th March 2013.
At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.
Book: by entitled: Love Wins p. 109 Published: March 2011.
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What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message—the center of the Gospel of Jesus—is that God is going to send you to hell, unless you believe in Jesus. And so, what gets, subtlely, sort of caught and taught is that Jesus rescues you from God. But what kind of God is that; that we would need to be rescued from this God? How could that God ever be good; how could that God ever be trusted? And how could that ever be good news.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 28th February 2011.
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Here is an example: If your story begins in Genesis 3 with people being really bad, then your gospel will be, "We have to deal with the sin thing." And if it begins with the world is bad and people are bad then the highest…is figuring out how to evacuate and go somewhere else. If your story begins in Genesis 1, it begins with a poem of creation…and God has said, "I made this big, beautiful world and I put you in it. Now you go make something big and beautiful…" If your story begins in Genesis 1 and 2, well that’s a fundamentally different story. Then no longer is the fundamental problem getting rid of sin. The gospel then is restoration and redemption and renewal and return to how God always intended this.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 18th February 2011.
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It’s interesting how many traditions {pause} When you read the great enlightened ones; meditation, centering prayer, reflection—in every tradition you can find the mystics—and what’s always at the heart of the spiritual lives, the everyday lives of the great ones was always a period of time. Whether it’s prayers, chanting, meditation, reflection, study—whatever you call it—what is it essentially; it’s taking time to breathe.
Sermon entitled: I will say it again, and again, and again. Dated: October 2009
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So this is reality, this forgiveness, this reconciliation, is true for everybody. Paul insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, he was reconciling “all things, in heaven and on earth, to God.” All things, everywhere. …This reality then isn’t something we make come true about ourselves by doing something. It is already true. Our choice is to live in this new reality or cling to a reality of our own making.
Book: by Rob Bell entitled: Velvet Elvis p146 Published: December 2008.
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The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context, the reader’s bias and current realities. The more you study the Bible, the more questions it raises. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: August 2005.
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And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, whom Jesus died for. Hell is full of forgiven people God loves, whom Jesus died for. The difference is how we choose to live, which story we choose to live in, which version of reality we trust.
Book: by Rob Bell entitled: Velvet Elvis (Zondervan) Published: 2005.
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The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.
Book: by Rob Bell entitled: Velvet Elvis (Zondervan) Published: 2005.
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By this I do not mean cosmetic, superficial changes like better lights and music, sharper graphics, and new methods with easy - to - follow steps. I mean theology: beliefs about God, Jesus, the Bible, salvation, the future. We must keep reforming the way the Christian faith is defined, lived and explained.
Book: by Rob Bell entitled: Velvet Elvis (Zondervan) p.12 Published: 2005.
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This is not just the same old message with new methods. We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: no date given.
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